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oh no

how about fuck you

what the ever loving…

um, i don’t

what

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roses are red
violets are blue
you must be reichenbach because i’m falling for you

roses are red
violets are blue
look at this love that i.o.u

Deduction is…

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so it’s fanfiction based on a book based on fanfiction based on a book

i—

ficception

The best part is that E.L. James…

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omg like

byzantiums:

I don’t get why the fact that texts need to evolve and be constantly re-imagined by new audiences is such a hard concept to grasp?

When it comes to the consumption of stories, authorial intent is not sovereign. I mean, just because a story…

“The consumption of a story is not a triangular dynamic between author, text and reader, it’s a binary relationship between text and reader.

What’s important isn’t what the writer meant, what’s important is what is what the story means to you, your point of connection or entry into any given text, how you interpret it.”

THIS, THIS, THIS SO HARD.

In my opinion, analysis of the author’s original purpose can be interesting on a superficial level, but means jack shit in the long run. The books that are going to stay with us (and by “us” I mean the human race) are the ones that the most people connect to. If I write some incomprehensible garbage and I’m like, “TO ME THIS REPRESENTED THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL,” that’s fine, but I shouldn’t expect everyone to worship at my feet and also see it as the dark night of the soul. The important books will always touch people, touch individual readers, in one way or another, whether that’s emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, or spiritually. And they’ll do it without authorial context.

Of course, readers often do - and should, imo - feel appreciation to authors because they’re a point of genesis. However, there’s a distinction in the dynamic that many people totally ignore: idolatry vs. respect. Authors don’t have the final opinion on their writing; readers’ opinions shouldn’t be subjugated to those of the author. Definitely important to remember that we as readers have as much to add to a work, perspective-wise, as the author ever did, and as much to take away from it.

jazzpha:

Oh hey! Remember when I said that it might take a while for the completed version of “Genesis” to be edited and posted on fanfiction.net?

Turns out it took a lot less time than I thought. Awesome!

So, without any further ado, here’s the link!

…

…yep. Reading Twist of Fate, and … yep. *fangirl squeal*

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT.

SOLUTION: WE HAVE TO KEEP IT EQUAL

ABSOLUTELY

EQUAL

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Yeah, I was really amazed about how simple trigger warnings were! I didn’t think about them before at ALL. I’m glad something like that is a simple fix! Haha! And yeah I’m glad…

YES, THE ALL-MALE PANEL. I love how a bunch of internet people reacted to that - they started sending their personal female hygiene problems in emails to those people. XD Just, like, freaking hilarious. “Here’s what you cannot understand! Hope you make an informed decision now that you know about all my period issues! Ta-ta for now!”

Rrrgh. We should go back to the days of radio debates. That way people would actually listen to WHAT people are saying instead of what they look like delivering it, whether they’re wearing a flag pin, whether they’re tall or short or fat or skinny or hideous. It shouldn’t matter.

Oh right… California, right. North Carolina here, so uh. Ahahah. Not to mention that I am also an indoor-dweller…

WELP WE COULD SEE EACH OTHER ON CHATROULETTE?? o_o

Haha. Sadly - I don’t use chatroulette. IT’S OKAY. WE HAVE EACH OTHER ON HERE? :D

Yeah - the radio was a good time. They actually had interesting questions back then too - and people knew how to SPEAK. I don’t even… Although I think we should utilize the internet so that we could replay what they were saying - or have transcripts of the debate available online and stuff. NEW PLUS OLD. 

I didn’t hear that people sent in tampons/pads. LOL THAT IS HILARIOUS. One must wonder if any of them watched She’s the Man and used them for nosebleeds…

God knows Chatroulette is scary as hell anyway…

Dunno about the transcript thing… that would require ACTUAL LITERACY from the constituency. Not sure I trust the reading comprehension skills of the American population. XD Not to, you know, be elitist.

I think probably the best troll!present was THIS ONE. Omg, I died.

LOL OH MY GOSH. That’s the best. If they don’t recognize what it is - then they definitely shouldn’t be making rules for people that have them… Just sayin’. 

Haha yeah, that’s true. I dunno, I feel like a lot of people (especially from what I see on my facebook) simply don’t bother to use proper words/grammar anymore. (Even though I just used the word “dunno”…) I just think a bunch of people are “lurnin how 2 chtspk so wrds r ez 2 ndrstnd” and it’s just making me smack my head against the wall. It’s so easy to text or do lazy typing - but honestly it’s just harder to understand because they’ve just made up an entirely different language. I mean, that’s cool if you want to use it and all, but at least know how to write properly and formally too. But then again, for the transcript thing - there are always going to be people that don’t understand. Politicians always use flowery words anyways. 

EXACTLY. I maintain that command of language and the ability to use it correctly are completely independent from the choice to speak formally. Like, I can sound like a pretentious douchebag if I want - and I can whip out all the stupid vocabulary and semicolons and what have you. But my personal voice tends to be rambly and ridiculous, and involve phrases that are far from technically correct, like “askhgjdkfl tHIS IS GIVING ME A SEIZURE” and “omffffg what the actual fuck”. Only when it’s appropriate, though. And not constantly. (Despite what my tags would lead most to believe eheheh)

I wonder if people would read, like, War and Peace if they translated it into chatspeak?! HA NEW PROJECT

modernlovehermione:

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uh what the fuck

this is the weirdest personal problem i have ever had.

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Actually, I have kind of the same problem. My dad thinks it’s cute to slap me on the ass whenever I walk by him, and though I’ve told him a million times that it makes me really…

Goodness! That’s way worse than a tap on the head. *hugs* Gah, why can’t people respect each other’s boundaries?

And with the tackling? Yeah, my dad used to corner me and tickle me until I was sobbing. What is WITH parents sometimes?! SKDFJhksd